# PRC Organ Harvesting Industry

[NBC:](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646) *The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are **still alive**, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded.*

[Tribunal:](https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Short-Form-Conclusion-China-Tribunal.pdf) *Falun Gong practitioners have been one — and probably the main — source of organ supply .. (while) the concerted persecution and medical testing of the Uyghurs is more recent.*

[NBC:](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646) *Allegations .. came to light in 2001, after a boom in transplant activity was registered .. with wait times becoming unusually short. Chinese websites advertised hearts, lungs and kidneys for sale and available to **book in advance**, suggesting that the victims were killed on demand.*   
[Dr. Enver Tohti, surgeon, witness:](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646) *What I recall is with my scalpel, I tried to cut into his skin - there was blood - that indicates the heart was still beating … At the same time, he was trying to resist my insertion, but he was too weak.*

[NBC:](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646) *The tribunal is chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, who worked as a prosecutor at the international tribunal for crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.*

Well, Sir Geoffrey sounds like a Nice chap- how about the nice researchers at Westmead - surely they wouldn’t have anything to do with such a horrid, institutionalized practice?